Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, is to present  a  cheque worth N2.8million for scholarship award to  56 tertiary students across the 28 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of Lagos West Senatorial District. The sponsor of the scholarship scheme and the senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Senator Solomon Adeola, informed that the programme would run yearly for  four years.

Adeola told newsmen in Abuja that he is equally donating 10  transformers, 28 boreholes in 28 LCDAs and 500 lifejackets for riverine communities. "I am also empowering many constituents with  grinding machines, sewing machines, freezers, and helmets among other items,” he said.

The lawmaker disclosed that this would take place at a town hall meeting ,explaining that “Already, as part of my educational empowerment, I had already purchased and distributed 500 free JAMB forms earlier in the year in the recently concluded tertiary entrance examination while 250 chairs and benches would be distributed to secondary schools in my district that is over half of the population of the mega city of Lagos State.”